Friday, November 21, 2008

Playing with neocolor & art gifts ...

Oooops.... once again my images have loaded in reverse order.... please bear with me (or is it blogger???????)Recently I have received some lovely "art mail" which I thought I would share with you. From the gorgeous Sharon Tomlinsonan absolutely beautiful envelope arrived in the mail (picture below this picture...). Inside the envelope, which is a work of art in itself, were these beautiful serviettes for my art - thank you so much Sharon, I share your passion for serviettes in art. Also these wonderful moo cards and images of Sharons beautiful ladies. Very special.... This is the wonderful envelope..... a treasure itself, and how exciting to see this in your mail box! AND..... that is the back (wondering where my photo of the front is??? will find it soon and share).

Below a beautiful package of handmade lace and vintage embroideries from my very dear patchwork friend Mary. These will be cut up at some stage and used in a patchwork piece. I adore the work of Karen Ruane who uses vintage embroideries in her wonderful wrapping cloths and binders. Pop over to her blog and take a look, her work is stunning.

Talk about spoilt.... I received these beautiful fabrics from Julia of Verdigris Roseblogspot. Lovely florals and the embroidered voile is my favourite I think... or is it the lovely blue background floral? The are all so beautiful and I cant wait to play with them. Thank you Julia!

Finally.... I have been playing around with my neocolor crayons. I just love how creamy and smooth they are. This page in my journal is titled "fronds" as it was inspired by the bracken fronds unfurling. Next I might try the bracken open. I am enjoying playing with ink and watercolor crayon.

Thanks for popping by and visiting my blog! Next weekend my sister and I are doing a handmade journal class with Ro Bruhn..... looking forward to that! My last class with Ro was such fun and inspirational. Will share some of my journal pages from the class with you very soon.

20 comments:

Hi! Thanks so much for the mention. This post is delicious, every image makes me want everything in it! I am going to a huge embroidery show tomorrow and I was looking forward to it already but these pics make me even more excited to go! And Blogger!!!!!!!! absolute nightmare, driving me mad, almost insane, you are not alone. Have an amazing weekend!x

Hi Jacky,Thanks for your wonderful words of encouragement re my latest post...I am so envious of you doing Ro's journal workshop...this weekend...would have loved to join you all..but my daughter's wedding is only two weeks away now, and I have had to stem the flow of spoending so to speak till after the New year...Hope you all have lots of fun....I can't wait toi see all your art from the workshop..xx

You have some wonderful things Jacky, bet you can't wait to use them! The neo crayons look fab - must put those on my Christmas list. And how lucky are you...another class with Ro Bruhn!!Look forward to seeing the results.HugsLinda x

Dear Jacky!Your Neocolor Fronds piece is stunning!! I also adore your Klimt Doll in the above post!!!i simply can't wait to see what you do with RO!! Oh how I wish that I could join you!! Be sure and show us all !!!